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Minority positions in the German council of economic experts : a political economic analysis
Potrafke, Niklas - 2013
I investigate minority votes in the German Council of Economic Experts. The dataset contains information on the voting … behavior of the council members over the period 1971-2011. The results show that the best predictor of minority voting is being … against the majority opinion of the German Council of Economic Experts. This voting pattern indicates that the channel of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009732996
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Collective choice with heterogeneous time preferences
Pakhnin, Mikhail - 2021
, discuss the difficulties with dynamic voting procedures and review some ways to overcome them. We conclude by highlighting the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012546897
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Moral transgressions by groups : what drives individual voting behavior?
Feess, Eberhard; Kerzenmacher, Florian; Mühlheußer, Gerd - 2020
different voting rules, the frequency of votes for the moral transgression increases with the number of votes required for it … us to identify guilt sharing and preferences for consensual voting as empirically relevant and independent drivers of … voting behavior. …
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Terrorism and voting : the rise of right-wing populism in Germany
Sabet, Navid; Liebald, Marius; Friebel, Guido - 2023
Can right-wing terrorism increase support for far-right populist parties, and if so, why? Exploiting quasi-random variation between successful and failed attacks across German municipalities, we find that successful attacks lead to significant increases in the vote share for the right-wing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014364725
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Biased forecasts and voting : the Brexit referendum case
Bizzotto, Jacopo; Cipullo, Davide; Reslow, André - 2024 - This version: July 1, 2024
This paper explores whether professional macroeconomic forecasters manipulate their forecasts to influence voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014583811
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Level r consensus and stable social choice
Mahajne, Muhammad; Nitsan, Shemuʾel; Volij, Oscar - 2014
We propose the concept of level r consensus as a useful property of a preference profile which considerably enhances the stability of social choice. This concept involves a weakening of unanimity, the most extreme form of consensus. It is shown that if a preference profile exhibits level r...
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On welfare frameworks and catastrophic climate risks
Millner, Antony - 2013
Recent theoretical work in the economics of climate change has suggested that climate policy is highly sensitive to "fat-tailed" risks of catastrophic outcomes (Weitzman, 2009b). Such risks are suggested to be an inevitable consequence of scientific uncertainty about the effects of increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199723
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Bargaining with intertemporal maximin payoffs
Martinet, Vincent; Gajardo, Pedro; De Lara, Michel - 2019
We frame sustainability problems as bargaining problems among stakeholders who have to agree on a common development path. For infinite alternatives, the set of feasible payoffs is unknown, limiting the possibility to apply classical bargaining theory and mechanisms. We define a framework...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962323
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Voting in the European Union : Central Europe's lost voice
Schneider, Ondřej (contributor) - 2008
on the EU policies has nevertheless been limited. This is due not only to the arcane voting rules within the EU, but also …, however, they have to coordinate their voting and become a more coherent voting group than they are now. -- European Union … ; voting system ; European council ; new member states …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790698
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Does membership on the UN security council influence IMF decisions? : evidence from panel data
Dreher, Axel (contributor); Sturm, Jan-Egbert (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003377296